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| show | Zimbabwe
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| show | CS Lewis
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| Which politician wrote "Living History"? | show 🗑
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| In a series of children's books by Lauren Child, who is Charlie's younger sister? | show 🗑
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| How does Marc Antony die in 'Antony and Cleopatra'? | show 🗑
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| In Treasure Island, how many men were "on a dead man's chest"? | show 🗑
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| show | Mount Nyangani
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| show | Thomas Love Peacock
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| show | Closure, associativity, identity and inversability
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| show | Timon of Athens, and MacBeth
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| On its quarto page, "The Two Moble Kinsmen" is attributed to both Shakespeare and which other playwright? | show 🗑
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| The Al-Sakhir Tower is part of which F1 circuit? | show 🗑
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| A hopper is a pancake chiefly associated with which country? | show 🗑
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| The Seikan Tunnel connects which two islands? | show 🗑
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| show | Ninette de Valois
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| What is a limner? | show 🗑
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| Who painted the "Hampton Court Beauties" of the reign of William III? | show 🗑
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| show | Peter Lely
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| show | Sarah Siddons
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| show | Garrick
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| The replica of Athena Parthenos in Nashville, as well as the original statue itself, depicted Athena holding what or who in her right hand? | show 🗑
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| Which architect of Ancient Greece designed the Parthenon with Iktinos, and himself designed the Temple of Athena Nike? | show 🗑
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| Nicknamed the Leonessa d'Italia ("Lioness of Italy"), which Lombard city is the homeland of Italian caviar, is known for being the original production area of the Franciacorta wine and for the Mille Miglia car race that starts and ends in the city? | show 🗑
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| Which Italian humanist, historian and statesman, is often recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance and wrote "History of the Florentine People, 12 Books", which has been called the first modern history book? | show 🗑
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| Which title and honorific meaning "lord" in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity, came to be applied to Gods, and was particularly associated with the storm and fertility god Hadad and his local manifestations? | show 🗑
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| The ancient kingdom of Phrygia now lies in which modern-day country? | show 🗑
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| The first openly declared Muslim outside Muhammad's family, who became the first Muslim Caliph following Muhammad's death? | show 🗑
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| The Arch of Hadrian is in which capital city? | show 🗑
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| show | Thalia
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| Which Britten opera shares its name with a Henry James novel? | show 🗑
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| "Ol Man River" comes from which musical? | show 🗑
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| show | The Thieving Magpie
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| show | Pocket Calculator
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| For which film did Rex Harrison win a Best Actor Oscar? | show 🗑
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| For which film did Jose Ferrer win a Best Actor Oscar? | show 🗑
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| show | Italy, Switzerland
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| show | Alhazen
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| show | Claudius Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus)
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| show | c.100-170CE
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| The "dorcas" is a species of which animal that lives in Arabia and Africa? | show 🗑
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| show | Bahrain
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| show | Jena-Auerstedt
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| Who was first President of Germany from 1919 until his death in office in 1925? | show 🗑
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| show | Bert and Ernie
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| A reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate of Nebuchadnezzar II can be found in which museum in Berlin? | show 🗑
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| Which German socialist and co-founder, with Rosa Luxemburg, of the Spartacist League was killed alongside her on 15th January 1919? | show 🗑
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| Who wrote novel Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) and a short novel called Goodbye to Berlin (1939)? | show 🗑
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| Which conference was held from 17 July to 2 August 1945, saw world leaders gathered to decide how to administer the defeated Nazi Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier? | show 🗑
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| show | Spree
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| show | Sykes-Picot Agreement
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| show | Stephen Langton
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| show | Battle of Bouvines
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| show | Bild
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| Evo Morales, appointed 2006, was the first president to come from the indigenous population of which country? | show 🗑
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| show | Perm
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| Which Swede achieved fame as the head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission from March 2000 to June 2003, who led the futile search for WMD in Iraq? | show 🗑
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| show | Burnley
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| show | Will Young
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| What colour robes are worn by Benedictine monks? | show 🗑
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| show | Black
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| Inspiring a 1955 painting of the same name, what is the title of the1834 painting by Eugène Delacroix that depicts concubines of a harem with a hookah, used to smoke hashish or opium? | show 🗑
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| Which book of the Bible provided Pier Paolo Pasolini with the title of a 1964 film? | show 🗑
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| show | Bertel Thorvaldsen
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| Selling 28 million copies, the Spice Girl's 1996 album Spice is the best-selling album of all time worldwide by a girl group. Which 1994 album by TLC - with 23 million sales - is second on that list? | show 🗑
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| These highly specialised plants occur in fresh water & wet soil as species across every continent except Antarctica. What common name - from the shape of the traps they use to capture prey - is given to the genus of carnivorous plants Utricularia? | show 🗑
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| One of the ten most popular newspapers in Europe by circulation (in the late 1980s it had the seventh largest circulation in the world), which daily tabloid has a near monopoly on newspaper readership in Austria? | show 🗑
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| Which lake to the west of Stockholm contains UNESCO World Heritage Sites Birka on the island of Björkö, Hovgården on the neighbouring island Adelsö, and Drottningholm Palace on the island of Lovön? | show 🗑
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| In which century was the first ancient Olympiad? | show 🗑
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| show | Informer
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| show | Walpurgis Night
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| Willem Cornelisz Schouten was the first man to sail which route? | show 🗑
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| show | Eleven
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| show | Ingvar Kamprad
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| What is the second book in Stieg Larsson's Millenium trilogy? | show 🗑
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| In which year was the Spanish Armada? | show 🗑
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| show | Sulawesi
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| show | John Evelyn
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| show | William Adam
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| show | William Smellie
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| The Scottish National Covenant was adopted and signed by a large gathering in the kirkyard of Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, on 28 February in which year? | show 🗑
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| Which author is best known for her 1912 novel Greyfriars Bobby? | show 🗑
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| In which building were both James V of Scotland and Mary Queen of Scots born? | show 🗑
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| show | Melrose
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| show | The IT Crowd
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| show | Mungo Park
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| Hawick is at the confluence of the Slitrig Water with which river? | show 🗑
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| Fiat money originated in the 11th century in which country? | show 🗑
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| Which river separates Banff and Macduff? | show 🗑
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| show | Desperate Dan
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| show | Galloway Forest Park
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| What is the most southernly point in Scotland? | show 🗑
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| In which year did both Fidel Castro and Archbishop Makarios assume power, in Cuba and Cyrpus respectively? | show 🗑
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| show | Dur-Shakurrin/Khorsabad
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| show | Sassanids
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| show | India
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| Which Chinese Dynasty lasted from c1100-256BCE? | show 🗑
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| show | Rome
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| show | Monymusk Reliquary
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| show | Walrus Ivory
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| Numbered BWV 244, which famous work for solo voices, double choir and double orchestra, with libretto by Picander, is widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of classical sacred music, and was written in 1727 by JS Bach? | show 🗑
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| show | Washington DC
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| show | RAF
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| In which cultural region, once an independent nation, are the standing stones at Carnac in France found? | show 🗑
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| show | Every 20 years
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| Witney, in Oxfordshire, is famed for the production of which item - water from the River Windrush was believed to be the secret? | show 🗑
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| Paphos is a coastal city in the southwest of which country? | show 🗑
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| On which ship did Captain Scott sail to the Antarctic in 1910? | show 🗑
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| Reflected in the local football team's nickname, what was Luton once famed for making? | show 🗑
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| Alexander Thynne, born 6 May 1932, took which title, the 7th man to hold the name? | show 🗑
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| show | Arabic
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| show | Colin Cowdrey
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| show | Gower
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| Which cricketer played for Surrey from 1905 to 1934 and for England in 61 Test matches between 1908 and 1930? | show 🗑
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| Which cricketer captained England in the infamous 1932-33 "Bodyline" series? | show 🗑
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| Who was the England cricket team's first professional captain? | show 🗑
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| Which cricketer captained Australia from 1958 to 1963? | show 🗑
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| show | Ray Illingworth
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| In the 1970-71 Ashes series, which English cricketer's bowling hit Terry Jenner on the head and almost caused a riot? | show 🗑
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| Which twins, American rowers (who represented Oxford in the 2010 Boat Race) and Internet entrepreneurs, sued Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, claiming he stole their ConnectU idea to create the social networking site, and ultimately received $65 million? | show 🗑
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| Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was born in which country? | show 🗑
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| On which island did Frances Nesbit marry Horatio Nelson? | show 🗑
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| In which city was former PM Gordon Brown born in 1951? | show 🗑
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| Which former manager of the pop group ABBA founded the Polar Music Prize in 1989? | show 🗑
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| show | Bobby Jones
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| show | Tabernas Desert
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| Which hugely popular Japanese manga character was once called "The Mighty Atom"? | show 🗑
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| In which civilisation did cuneiform writing first appear? | show 🗑
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| Which king captured Jerusalem in 586BCE? | show 🗑
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| show | Athenians (accept Greeks) beat Persians
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| show | Philip II of Macedon
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| show | Table of buttered bread
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| The Jewish food 'matzo' is traditionally served during which festival? | show 🗑
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| Who is the lead singer of Rage Against The Machine? | show 🗑
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| Who were the backing band of Gene Vincent? | show 🗑
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| Queen Anne of England was a patron of which composer, who lived from 1685-1759? | show 🗑
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| show | 46
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| show | Tuba
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| Which is one of the few instruments played by both inhaling and exhaling - it first appeared in Vienna around the 1820s? | show 🗑
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| Which is the penultimate book of the Old Testament? | show 🗑
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| Which is the penultimate book of the New Testament? | show 🗑
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| The Citrus Paradisi tree produces which type of fruit? | show 🗑
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| Ben & Gus are the hitmen in which Harold Pinter play? | show 🗑
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| Olaus Rudbeck was a scientist and writer, primarily known for his contributions in two fields: human anatomy and linguistics, from which country? | show 🗑
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| show | Hertfordshire
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| show | I Burn
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| show | Worms
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| show | Lie To Me
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| show | Michael Gambon
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| Which island was the base for the 2000 TV series "Castaway"? | show 🗑
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| Allicin is an organosulphur compound found, and obtained from, which natural product? | show 🗑
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| Who preceded Andy Flower as England cricket coach, before being sacked, after a public falling-out with Kevin Pietersen? | show 🗑
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| show | Silver Birch
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| Who won 800m gold for Great Britain at the 1964 Olympics? | show 🗑
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| Which woman won long jump gold for Great Britain at the 1964 Olympics? | show 🗑
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| show | Auroras Encore
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| Which team defeated the Carolina Panthers 24-10 to win Superbowl 50? | show 🗑
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| show | Zimbabwe
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| Until suspension in 2015 for illegal betting, they were the most successful team in the IPL - in which city were the 'Super Kings' based? | show 🗑
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| show | Claire Taylor
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| Which nation won the World T20 in 2009, their first victory at the tournament? | show 🗑
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| show | Trombonist
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| show | Cornet
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| King Oliver is known for being the mentor and teacher of which famous jazz musician, who joined his Creole Jazz Band in 1919 until 1924? | show 🗑
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| Jazz musician Red Nichols was a virtuoso on which instrument? | show 🗑
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| show | Lonesome George
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| Which is the largest of the Galapagos Islands? | show 🗑
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| show | Drums
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| show | Saxophonist
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| show | Cotton Club
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| Which English band leader and entertainer, was in his younger years an amateur footballer for Brentford F.C., an accomplished racing driver and the owner of a Gipsy Moth, which he piloted himself? | show 🗑
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| show | Hu Jintao
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| show | William Jennings Bryan
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| In which town was the 1925 Scopes trial held, that made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school? | show 🗑
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| show | Ulama
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| show | Schizophrenia
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| show | Satan
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| The Jane's annual publications detail what? | show 🗑
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| show | To prevent genocide
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| Helle Thorning-Schmidt was PM of which country from 2011 to 2015? | show 🗑
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| show | Glasgow
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| show | Northanger Abbey
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| In Dickens' novel "The Old Curiosity Shop" what is the surname of Little Nell? | show 🗑
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| Which moneylending dwarf is a villain in "The Old Curiosity Shop"? | show 🗑
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| Which French poet abandoned writing aged 19 to become a salesman? | show 🗑
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| Which French author died in 1814 at an insane asylum in Charenton? | show 🗑
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| show | Guy de Maupassant
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| Which famous English author was employed at age 12 putting labels on bottles? | show 🗑
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| show | Channel Islands
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| Who illustrated the first edition of Oscar Wilde's "Salome"? | show 🗑
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| show | Farces
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| Which playwright, who died aged 41 in 1964, was briefly imprisoned for membership of the IRA? | show 🗑
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| show | Jane Bennett
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| What is the name of "The Mayor Of Casterbridge"? | show 🗑
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| show | Cornelia Parker
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| show | Chris Evans
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| Who was the first cricketer to score a century against all 18 English cricket counties in first-class games? | show 🗑
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| Martina Navratilova had least success at which Grand Slam event - winning 'only' twice in 1982 and 1984? | show 🗑
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| "Feed The Birds" comes from which musical? | show 🗑
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| "Willkommen" is a song from which musical? | show 🗑
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| show | Cor Anglais
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| show | Monetarism
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| show | Saturn
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| "Streamline" and "Enorma" are varieties of which vegetable? | show 🗑
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| show | Weak and strong nuclear forces; gravity; electromagnetic
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| Which airline was founded by Juan Trippe in 1927? | show 🗑
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| show | Robert Chambers
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| show | Self-loading rifle
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| What nationality was Gregor Mendel? | show 🗑
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| show | Huxley; Wilberforce
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| In which year was the first Superbowl held? | show 🗑
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| Whose cattle did Hercules have to capture as his tenth labour? | show 🗑
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| show | Hesperides
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| What was the twelfth and final Labour of Hercules? | show 🗑
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| The Pyramid Texts were carved on the walls and sarcophagi of pyramids at which Egyptian site? | show 🗑
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| From the Latin for "wandering bishops" what name is given to bishops consecrated in an irregular way, or consecrated and then excommunicated, but who continue to preach? | show 🗑
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| In Kabbalah, what are the representations of evil or impure spiritual forces in Jewish mysticism, the polar opposites of the holy Sephirot? | show 🗑
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| Which musical features the number "Bangles, Baubles and Beads"? | show 🗑
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| Who were the backing band of Junior Walker? | show 🗑
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| What name is shared by both a mythological Grace and Muse? | show 🗑
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| show | Euryale, Sthena
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| show | David II
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| Which French King was captured at the Battle of Poitiers? | show 🗑
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| Who was the only English monarch to be crowned King of France? | show 🗑
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| Give a year in the reign of Edward III. | show 🗑
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| Released as his first single in 1958, and reaching Number 2 on the charts, what was Cliff Richard's first hit? | show 🗑
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| Which was the first movie Elvis Presley made after leaving the Army? | show 🗑
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| Who released the song "Rock Around The Clock"? | show 🗑
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| show | Blackboard Jungle
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| show | Johnnie Ray
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| Give a year in the reign of Richard II of England | show 🗑
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| Politically, what is the ECHR? | show 🗑
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| show | Seaweed
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| show | Not a lot of people know that
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| Which US car manufacturer introduced electric starters in 1911? | show 🗑
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| show | Tapir
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| show | Cabbage
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| What do Americans call the guard's van at a train's rear? | show 🗑
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| Which African cat is named for its foul-smelling anal gland fluid? | show 🗑
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| How is the houseplant 'Monstera' better known? | show 🗑
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| show | African violet
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| On 23 March 1729 which artist married Jane Thornhill, daughter of fellow painter artist Sir James Thornhill? | show 🗑
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| show | Royal Academy
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| In 2010 Annise Parker became the first openly gay mayor of a large US city when she became mayor where? | show 🗑
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| ZANU-PF is a major political party in which country? | show 🗑
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| In which monarch's reign was the Model Parliament? | show 🗑
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| show | Iraq
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| Who was the only child of Queen Anne to survive infancy, although he still died aged 11? | show 🗑
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| show | Admiral Villeneuve
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| show | Karl Marx
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| show | 1964
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| show | King William's War
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| Britain gained Newfoundland from France in which conflict of 1702-13? | show 🗑
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| On 9 July 1755, which Major General was killed when his forces were ambushed at the Monongahela River whilst he was en route to Fort Duquesne? | show 🗑
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| What was the North American offshoot of the War of The Austrian Succession? | show 🗑
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| Which French General captured and destroyed Fort Oswego and Fort William Henry from the British in 1756, but lost out to Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham in 1759? | show 🗑
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| What alliterative name was given to the company of colonial militia from the colony of New Hampshire, attached to the British Army during the Seven Years' War (called the French and Indian War in the United States), named after their leader? | show 🗑
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| show | Assonance
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| show | Quebec
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| Pontiac, famed as the leader of an American Indian struggle against British military occupation of the Great Lakes region was the leader of which tribe? | show 🗑
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| show | Deep Purple
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| Which author, who lived 1628-88, joined Cromwell's Roundhead army before the age of sixteen, and recalled an incident when his replacement on guard duty was almost immediately shot and killed with a musket? | show 🗑
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| show | United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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| What name is given to a plant that grows - unlike parasites - harmlessly upon another plant (such as a tree) and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, and sometimes from debris accumulating around it? | show 🗑
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| Vicunas and llamas belong to which family of animals? | show 🗑
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| show | Dog days
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| What specific name is given to a two year-old horse? | show 🗑
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| show | Parachutes
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| show | Electronic Stability Program
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| What one-word term, derived from Latin for 'outside the walls', is used for a university's non-registered students? | show 🗑
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| If someone is said to be 'in Carey Street', what does that mean? | show 🗑
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| Which TV show, that first aired in 1992, had a theme tune was sung by Adrian Edmondson and Julie Driscoll? | show 🗑
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| Which English comedian is probably best known for replacing Mark Lamarr as presenter of "Never Mind The Buzzcocks" and for his sometimes confrontational and insulting approach whilst on the show? | show 🗑
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| Which children's show, a spin-off of Dr Who, aired between 2007 and 2011 and starred the late Elizabeth Sladen in the title role? | show 🗑
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| Which Welshman was instrumental in the 2005 revival of Dr Who, and the show's popularity during his tenure as executive producer saw at least two spin-offs, including Torchwood? | show 🗑
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| What is the title of the film that is 'number 2' chronologically in the Star Wars series, following "The Phantom Menace"? | show 🗑
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| Which member of a critically-acclaimed band wrote the score for the movie "There Will Be Blood"? | show 🗑
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| Which musical instrument, one of the first electronic ones, was invented in 1928 and part-named after its founder, and produces eerie wavering notes by varying the frequency of oscillation in vacuum tubes? | show 🗑
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| show | Anthony Head
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| show | Tom Chambers
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| Which 2009 British documentary film aiming to expose the "shams and deceit involved in creating a pernicious celebrity culture", and saw tabloids uncritically accept stories they were given? | show 🗑
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| show | They were all amputees
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| Who overtook Boycott as England's top cricket run-scorer in 1992? | show 🗑
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| Which newsreader wrote a biography of cricketer Viv Richards? | show 🗑
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| Which English county side did Viv Richards represent from 1974 to 1986? | show 🗑
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| show | Kapil Dev
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| Which Australian cricketer was the first man to take 300 Test wickets? | show 🗑
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| show | Richard Hadlee
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| What is England's most southerly Test cricket ground? | show 🗑
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| show | Aintree
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| What did the WG stand for in the name of WG Grace? | show 🗑
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| show | Sunglasses
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| Who won both 5000 and 10000m Olympic Gold in 1972 and 1976? | show 🗑
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| Which English rugby league team are known as the 'Bulldogs'? | show 🗑
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| What is the total of the numbers in a Sudoku line? | show 🗑
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| Which was the only horse to regain the Cheltenham Cup, winning in 2007 and 2009? | show 🗑
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| Which boxer was nicknamed 'The Manassa Mauler'? | show 🗑
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| show | Eventing
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| Who scored England's only goal in their game of October 1973 against Poland, that saw England fail to qualify for World Cup 1974, when they were famously thwarted by the Polish goalkeeper Jan Tomaszewski? | show 🗑
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| show | Flyweight
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| show | Kenenisa Bekele
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| The national fruit of Bangladesh, what is considered to be the largest tree-borne fruit, reaching as much as 35 kg in weight, 90 cm in length, and 50 cm in diameter? | show 🗑
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| show | Bellinghausen Sea
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| show | James Clark Ross
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| Named after the Scottish sailor who first entered it in 1823, which Antarctic sea has the clearest water of any sea, approaching that of distilled water? | show 🗑
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| show | Tin Cup
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| show | The Gold Rush
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| show | Nickelodeon
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| show | Geronimo
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| show | William Cobbett
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| show | Laurence Sterne
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| Which Ukrainian-born American actress received the third of her four Razzie nominations for playing Joan of Arc in the 1999 Luc Besson directed film Joan of Arc? | show 🗑
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| show | Jane Wiedlin
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| show | Ingrid Bergman
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| The mother of which painter committed suicide in 1912 by drowning herself in the river Sambre? She had been a milliner before she got married, which may possibly have been an influence for a recurring theme in his work. | show 🗑
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| Since the 18th century, the river Pregolya, also known as the Pregel, has probably been best known for which series of crossings over it, only two of which still survive from that time in the same form? | show 🗑
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| The 22-mile long Gran Valira river (a tributary of a larger river system) is the main river flowing through which European capital city? | show 🗑
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| An opera composed by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, with a libretto by his brother Modest Tchaikovsky, and based on a short story of the same name by Alexander Pushkin has as its title which specific playing card? | show 🗑
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| show | Kenny G
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| show | Bambi
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| Which English film director whose credits include Pride and Prejudice (2005), Atonement (2007), Hanna (2011), Anna Karenina (2012) and Pan (2015) is married to the sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar, daughter of Ravi Shankar? | show 🗑
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| show | Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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| show | Little Auks
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| show | Flying Wallendas
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| show | Evgeni Malkin
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| show | Ramsar
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| Portrait of a Man is a well-known work - and possible self-portrait - of which Sicilian painter (c. 1430 - 1479) who Giorgio Vasari credited with bringing oil painting to Italy? | show 🗑
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| show | Tina Arena
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| Which brilliant Kiev-born classical pianist is probably best-known for his work with Arturo Toscanini, with whom he recorded Brahms' second piano concerto and Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto with the NBC Symphony? | show 🗑
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| The prominent economists Léon Walras and Vilfredo Pareto are both associated with which school of economic thought - named for a European city - most closely associated with the development of general equilibrium theory? | show 🗑
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| show | Martin
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| Which Russian geneticist (1917-85) is best-known for his long experiment breeding the silver fox, selecting only those individuals that showed the least fear of humans, until he was left with foxes which wagged their tails when approached? | show 🗑
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| show | The Witcher
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| What is the stage-name taken by the fabulously well-endowed nightclub dishwasher Eddie Adams when he enters into a career as a porn star in Paul Thomas Anderson's 1997 film Boogie Nights? | show 🗑
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| What was the surname of the Czech husband and wife who were jointly awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of how glycogen is broken down and resynthesized in the body, for use as a store and source of energy? | show 🗑
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| show | Baskin-Robbins
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| show | Shenyang
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| Although officially called 'followers', the distinctive playing pieces almost universally referred to as 'meeples' are used in which board game? | show 🗑
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| show | Russell Means
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| The 17th century German professor Wilhelm Schickard is best-known for his invention of an early example of which device, the invention of which is often attributed to Blaise Pascal who independently invented such a device some two decades later? | show 🗑
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| show | Henri Rousseau
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| show | Ether
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| show | Djerba
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| As of 2016, the tallest building in New England is which skyscraper in Boston, designed by Henry N. Cobb of the firm I. M. Pei & Partners and completed in 1976? | show 🗑
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| What is the name of the unleavened bread traditionally eaten by Jewish people during Pesach, when eating food made with leavened grain is forbidden according to Jewish religious law? | show 🗑
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| show | Nicaragua
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| The 15th century composers Guillaume Dufay, Gilles Binchois, Antoine Busnois, and John Dunstaple were central figures within which 'school' centred on the courts of the namesake duchy? | show 🗑
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| show | Louisiana
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| First studied by Étienne Pascal, father of Blaise, what name, derived from the Latin for ‘snail’, is given to a roulette formed when a circle rolls around the outside of a circle of equal radius? | show 🗑
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| Made with ground pork, paprika, and salt and spices, sobrassada is a raw, cured sausage originating in which island group? | show 🗑
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| The most famous game of the historic form of 'calcio' (as distinct from modern football, for which calcio is also the word) is played each June in the Piazza Santa Croce in which Italian city? | show 🗑
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| Who is credited with inventing the barometer in 1643? | show 🗑
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| show | Lewis Waterman
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| Which symbol appears alongside the 5 on the 5 key of a computer keyboard? | show 🗑
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| show | Mouse
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| In aviation, what is AWACS? | show 🗑
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| show | France
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| show | South Korea
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| show | Viviparous
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| Which phylum do roundworms belong to? | show 🗑
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| show | Flew in a balloon
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| show | Eleven
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| show | Doris Day
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| Kim Basinger won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for which film? | show 🗑
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| For what does SPECTRE stand in the James Bond books and films? | show 🗑
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| show | Anne Bancroft
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| Who played Archie Rice in the 1960 film version of "The Entertainer"? | show 🗑
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| show | Psoriasis
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| Who married Amy Winehouse in 2007, and was widely blamed for her spiral into drug addiction? | show 🗑
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| show | The Departed
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| show | Harry Potter
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| The oldest regiment in the Regular Army in continuous active service, which one wears the Star of the Order of the Garter? | show 🗑
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| Which country's traditional calendar follows the years of the Emperor's reign? | show 🗑
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| The BSI, which awards kitemarks, stands for what? | show 🗑
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| Much Marple & Ross-On-Wye are in which English county? | show 🗑
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| show | Poetry
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| Apsley House, "No.1 London", stands near which park? | show 🗑
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| show | Charles Fremantle
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| Where are King George Bay, Queen Charlotte Bay and Pebble Island? | show 🗑
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| show | Gareth Malone
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| What is the short nickname of the elevated railway in several cities, including Chicago and Philadelphia? | show 🗑
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| show | The Glovers
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| Czechoslovakia were runners-up in the World Cup Final twice - once in 1934, and in which other year? | show 🗑
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| Which eponymously-named cricket stroke was pioneered by Sri Lankan right-handed batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan during the ICC World Twenty20 held during June 2009 in England? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which captain of the England national cricket team in One Day Internationals and Twenty 20 Internationals once represented Ireland? | show 🗑
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| Who were the first team to win the European Rugby Champions Cup, in 2014-5, after it was rebranded from the Heineken Cup? | show 🗑
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| Who were the first winners of the Heineken Cup, in 1995–96? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which tennis player admitted in his autobiography that he used and tested positive for methamphetamine in 1997? | show 🗑
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| show | New England Patriots
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|
||||
| Who was British boxer to reach the final of the World Amateur Boxing Championships, first British boxer to become a unified cruiserweight world champion, and then became WBA Heavyweight champion in 2009? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which nation have achieved a Four/Five/Six Nations Grand Slam only twice as of 2016 - in 1948 and in 2009? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Dante
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| Exhibited in 1865, he started it in 1852 - who painted "Work", generally considered one of his more important works? | show 🗑
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| Combining medieval history with criticism of 19th-century British society, who wrote 1843's "Past And Present"? | show 🗑
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| Which group announced themselves after a meeting at 13 Gower Street, London, in 1848? | show 🗑
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| show | Elizabeth Siddal
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| Which Pre-Raphaelite painted "The Awakening Conscience"? | show 🗑
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| show | William Trevor
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| Who wrote the 1978 work "Young Adolf"? | show 🗑
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||||
| Leontes is a character in which of Shakespeare's plays? | show 🗑
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| show | Basil Spence
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|
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| What does 'swastika' mean in Sanskrit? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Jura
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| show | Rachel Whiteread
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| show | Retail Therapy
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| Pedro Carmona replaced which elected president for 47 hours in a 2001 constitutional crisis? | show 🗑
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| show | John Greenleaf Whittier
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| Which is released into the bloodstream as a hormone in response to stretching of the cervix and uterus during labour and with stimulation of the nipples from breastfeeding, and is used as a medicine to induce labour? | show 🗑
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||||
| According to the Torah, how many specific commandments should Jews obey? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Israel Is Our Home
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||||
| show | Feelin' Groovy
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|
||||
| show | Bose-Einstein statistics
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|
||||
| show | Dirac
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|
||||
| show | Alfred Russel Wallace
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|
||||
| show | Elisha Gray
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|
||||
| In 1999, who was declared Man Of The Century by TIME magazine? | show 🗑
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| Name either man to win a Nobel Prize in the same category twice. | show 🗑
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||||
| What eponymous name is given in physics to coordinate transformations between two coordinate frames that move at constant velocity relative to each other? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which reactions, named after a French chemist and Nobel Prize winner, and important in forming carbon-carbon bonds, occur when alkyl, vinyl, or aryl-magnesium halides add to a carbonyl group in an aldehyde or ketone? | show 🗑
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| In the law of wills, what name is given to any individual or organization bequeathed any portion of a testator's estate? | show 🗑
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||||
| In which year of the 20th Century did Norway achieve independence from Sweden? | show 🗑
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| The smallest territory of India is which group of islands off the country’s southwestern coast with its capital at Kavaratti? | show 🗑
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||||
| Bardo Thodol describes the experiences that one can expect to have between death and rebirth. It is commonly known as the '_______ Book of the Dead' with the blank indicating the ethnic group to whom the book is near-sacred. Which ethnic group? | show 🗑
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||||
| The acclaimed restaurant Le Chantecler is to be found within the equally famous Hotel Negresco which overlooks the Mediterranean in which city? | show 🗑
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| show | Rachel Ruysch
🗑
|
||||
| Which 1927 Laurel and Hardy film shares its title with a Marx Brothers film? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Shrimps
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|
||||
| show | La Gazetta dello Sport
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|
||||
| A companion piece to his 2002 album Sea Change, which 2014 album by Beck was awarded a 2015 Grammy Award for Album of the Year? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Hills
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|
||||
| show | Sid Meier
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|
||||
| show | 1772-92
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|
||||
| show | Max Planck
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|
||||
| Which Nobel Prize is traditionally announced last? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which Nobel Prize is traditionally announced first of the six, often on 10 October? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Egyptian
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|
||||
| In which Swiss governmental office was Einstein working when he formulated his theories of relativity? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Swiss
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|
||||
| He left his native country aged nine in 1843 - who invented the motto for himself "my home is my work and my work is everywhere"? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | St Petersburg
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|
||||
| show | John Paul Jones
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|
||||
| show | John Stuart Mill
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||||
| show | Nassau
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|
||||
| In Christianity, what name is given to one who takes the principle of salvation by faith and divine grace to the point of asserting that the saved are not bound to follow the Law of Moses? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Antinomian Controversy
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||||
| show | Savannah
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|
||||
| "The Confession Of The Savoyard Vicar" was a then-controversial passage in which philosophical text? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Jansenism
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||||
| show | David Hume
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|
||||
| Which three word German term did Kant use to describe a "thing in itself"? | show 🗑
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||||
| The founding figure of the philosophical movement (1762-1814) known as German idealism, who was also the originator of thesis–antithesis–synthesis (Thesis–Antithesis–Synthesis), an idea that is often erroneously attributed to Hegel? | show 🗑
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||||
| What is the name of the Muppet rock house band of The Muppet Show? | show 🗑
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||||
| Part of the Sierra Nevada range in the Cordillera Penibética, and named for a Muslim ruler of Granada, what is the highest mountain in continental Spain and in the Iberian Peninsula? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which mountain in Colombia ranks fifth in the 'prominence' charts (i.e how much a mountain rises above its surroundings) with a prominence of 18074ft, and is the highest thus-ranked mountain not to be one of the Seven Summits? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which river flows through Florence, and hence under the Ponte Vecchio in the city? | show 🗑
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| show | Ibiza
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|
||||
| Which is the oldest and largest railway station in Bristol, UK? | show 🗑
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||||
| In which town is the Menin Gate located? | show 🗑
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||||
| The majority lying within The Border Forest Park, what is the largest man-made woodland in England? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which conifer has the Latin name Pseudotsuga menziesii? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Cape Tarifa
🗑
|
||||
| The largest island off the coast of ireland, Achill Island, lies off the coast of which county? | show 🗑
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||||
| What is the official residence of the Vice President of the United States? | show 🗑
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||||
| The 42nd Vice President of the United States (1977–81) under President Jimmy Carter, who lost in a landslide to President Reagan in the 1984 Presidential election? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which London square houses both the BMA building, and a statue of Gandhi, sculpted by Fredda Brilliant? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which British publishing was house founded in 1917 by Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf - it was named after their house in Richmond, in which they began hand-printing books? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Xinjiang
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|
||||
| show | Fremantle
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|
||||
| show | Antarctica
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|
||||
| If a glen is a narrow valley, what prefix is used for a wide Scottish valley? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Devon
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|
||||
| In chess, the Smith–Morra Gambit (or simply Morra Gambit) is an opening gambit against which opening? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | French Defence
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|
||||
| show | Luteal phase
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|
||||
| show | Jean Charles de Menezes
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|
||||
| What was Charles Dickens' second published novel, after The Pickwick Papers? | show 🗑
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||||
| Who wrote the novel "Lustrum"? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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|
||||
| Which is the last of Agatha Christie's "Miss Marple" novels? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Bill Sykes
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|
||||
| show | Moby Dick
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|
||||
| show | Linda
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|
||||
| show | 23rd April
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||||
| The Isle of Purbeck, not a true island but a peninsula, is in which English county? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Swansea
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|
||||
| Orange County's main airport, just 14 miles from Disneyland, and with the IATA code SNA for Santa Ana, is named after which man? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Lifford
🗑
|
||||
| What is the genuine (not official) birthday of Queen Elizabeth II? | show 🗑
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||||
| In which English county is the Isle of Sheppey? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Solihull (accept Birmingham)
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|
||||
| show | Baffin Island
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|
||||
| show | Jake and Dinos
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|
||||
| Which long-running high-circulation daily broadsheet newspaper in Russia was a newspaper of record in the Soviet Union from 1917 until the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, and began as News of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers Deputies on 13 March1917 ? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | The Caretaker (Pinter)
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|
||||
| show | Newlyn
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|
||||
| show | St Ives
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|
||||
| What single letter name was taken by the Cornish author of "Dead Man's Rock"? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Irene Adler
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|
||||
| Who was the Inspector in several of the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Doyle took his name from a friend in his days at the University of Edinburgh, a Saint Lucian medical student? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Paradise Lost
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|
||||
| show | Cormac McCarthy
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|
||||
| show | Pedro Almodóvar
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|
||||
| From which city did Felipe II move the Spanish capital to Madrid in 1561? | show 🗑
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||||
| Who was the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, who made him King of Naples and Sicily (1806–1808), and later King of Spain (1808–1813)? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which river flows through Madrid? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Madrid
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|
||||
| Highly rated Pétrus wine is made entirely from which grape? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Dessert
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| show | Choux pastry balls piled into a cone and bound with threads of caramel
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|
||||
| Pinhead, rough, medium and fine are grades of which processed grain? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Aeolus
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||||
| show | Terrorvision
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|
||||
| "Love Bites" was a power ballad by who, that was their only US Billboard Number 1 when released as a single in 1988? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Tristan Und Isolde
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||||
| show | Rigoletto
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||||
| In myth, which son of Zeus and Electra founded the Royal House of Troy? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Hungary
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|
||||
| Which king of Kernow (Cornwall) in the early 6th century is most famous for his appearance in Arthurian legend as the uncle of Tristan and husband of Iseult, who engage in a secret affair? | show 🗑
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||||
| How is a Cardinal correctly addressed? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Sage
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|
||||
| show | The Meistersingers
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|
||||
| Complete the saying: "The fool wanders, the wise man..."? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Green
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|
||||
| show | Vulpine
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|
||||
| In what structure are fox cubs born and weaned? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Shield bugs, stink bugs, chust bugs
🗑
|
||||
| Fringilla montifringilla is the name of which finch, a winter visitor to Britain? | show 🗑
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||||
| 'Jack' and 'common' are two British species of which bird? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Beech
🗑
|
||||
| Members of the family Sparassidae have what two-word common name because of their speed and carnivorous nature? | show 🗑
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||||
| A sea lemon is actually a type of what? | show 🗑
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||||
| When the Turks invaded, the capital of the Hungarian Empire was moved from Budapest to which city in 1536, returning in 1686? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Slovakia
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|
||||
| How many countries joined the EU in May 2004, the largest enlargement in EU history? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Danube
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|
||||
| show | Mammoth ivory
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|
||||
| show | Pariser Platz
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|
||||
| show | Velvet Divorce
🗑
|
||||
| Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk and Richard Meier are all architects who have together been given what nickname, referencing a city where their photographed work was the subject of a meeting in 1969? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which architect was behind the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, opened in 2004 in Berlin? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Lisbon
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|
||||
| Which country in the world contains the most trans-boundary rivers (defined as a river that crosses a national border)? | show 🗑
|
||||
| The Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela takes place how often? | show 🗑
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||||
| By some measures it is the most polluted river on Earth, in which country is the Citarum River located? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Marie Byrd Land
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|
||||
| show | Royal Society of Arts (RSA)
🗑
|
||||
| Which charity and international solidarity movement was founded in Paris in 1949 by the Catholic priest and Capuchin friar Abbé Pierre to combat poverty and homelessness? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Plastic Bertrand
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|
||||
| show | Tagalog
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|
||||
| show | Rasht
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|
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| show | Safavid
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|
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| show | Hatchling
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| Ezra Warner patented which common household object? | show 🗑
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| show | Four
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| Which airline, principal and largest international air carrier in the United States from 1927 until its collapse on December 4, 1991, was the first one to place orders for Boeing 747s? | show 🗑
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| show | Poult
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| What is the only phase of the moon that can produce a solar eclipse? | show 🗑
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| What was the real first name of astronaut Buzz Aldrin? | show 🗑
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| show | Celluloid
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| What is kept in a ship's binnacle? | show 🗑
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| show | Angora wool
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| show | Glue
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| show | Viking 1
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| How many feet above ground level is tree girth measured? | show 🗑
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| Which high profile designer was sacked by Dior in 2011 following an anti-Jewish tirade in a Paris bar? | show 🗑
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| show | Duck
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| show | Sugar cane
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| What is the nautical term for the practice of biting rope ends? | show 🗑
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| The name of which famous 19th-century maker of small pocket pistols, slightly misspelled, became an alternative generic term for any pocket pistol, along with the generic phrase palm pistol? | show 🗑
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| What type of creature is an ortolan? | show 🗑
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| show | Chromite
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| Which British politician was the second husband of musician Marion Stein? | show 🗑
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| show | Meryl Streep
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| show | Spike Milligan
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| show | Liz Taylor
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| Who said of Clark Gable "if his manhood was one inch shorter, they'd call him the Queen of Hollywood"? | show 🗑
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| show | Jessica
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| show | Mystic Meg
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| show | Billy Elliott
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| Who married former Miss Finland, Heini Wathen, in 1985? | show 🗑
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| Who wrote the 2009 autobiography "Look Back In Hunger"? | show 🗑
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| Which order of monks was founded by St Bruno in the tenth century? | show 🗑
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| show | Barrister
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| show | Plumule
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| show | Polish
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| Ruthenia is an ancient name for an area in Europe centred on which mountain range? | show 🗑
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| Which battle of 16 to 19 November 1813 was also called "The Battle of Nations"? | show 🗑
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| show | Polo shirt
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| show | Fifteen
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| show | August von Kotzebue
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| Which Italian politician, journalist and activist for the unification of Italy (1805-72) spearheaded the Italian revolutionary movement and helped bring about independent and unified Italy in place of several separate states? | show 🗑
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| show | Spy Wednesday
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| What is 'Illustrated' in the title of a novel by Ray Bradbury, and 'History' in one by Malcolm Bradbury? | show 🗑
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| In what year was the video game Pac-Man released? | show 🗑
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| show | Jean Cocteau
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| show | Australian Rules
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| Which company was founded in Tokyo in 1946 by engineer Mazaru Ibuka and physicist Akio Morita? | show 🗑
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| How many players are there on an Australian Rules football team? | show 🗑
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| Which country are Samsung from? | show 🗑
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| show | Cupid
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| show | Dagobert
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| Who was the first British woman to win Olympic gold at 800m? | show 🗑
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| Which female Dutch athlete won four gold medals at the 1948 Olympics? | show 🗑
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| In which English football season were three points for a win first awarded? | show 🗑
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| show | 7 & 6
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| show | Archery
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| Which sport has fast, slow and modified pitch varieties? | show 🗑
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| Which horse won both the 2000 Guineas and Irish 2000 Guineas in 2002? | show 🗑
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| show | Jim Culloty
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| show | Ken Higgs
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| show | David Bedford
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| Which exotically-named basketball player, who died in 2015, was a Harlem Globetrotter from 1955 to 1980? | show 🗑
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| On April 13, 2016, which NBA team set the record for most wins in a single season, beating Memphis, and finishing 73-9? | show 🗑
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| Winning in both 2014-5 and 2015-6, who was the 11th basketball player to win back-to-back MVP honors and in 2016 became the first player in NBA history to win the MVP award by unanimous vote, winning all 131 first-place votes? | show 🗑
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| show | Rio Ferdinand
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| Who was the first woman to win five track and field medals at one Olympics? | show 🗑
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| Which man created Scrabble in 1938? | show 🗑
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| show | London Marathon
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| Coleridge's "Rime of The Ancient Mariner" first appeared in which book of poems? | show 🗑
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| Mark Wright, a presenter of "Take Me Out: The Gossip" and "Party Wright Round The World" first came to prominence on which show? | show 🗑
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| The Alton Towers estate was a former seat of which Earl? | show 🗑
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| In 183 BC, Hannibal committed suicide in which modern-day country? | show 🗑
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| show | P-Funk
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| Which Russian born geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist of German descent gives his name to the system of climate characterisation and helped develop one of the world's first cloud atlases? | show 🗑
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| show | Ray-finned
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| show | Caliche
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| Marlon Brando was nominated for 8 acting Oscars during his lifetime – for which film did he receive his first nomination in 1952? | show 🗑
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| Double Falsehood the early eighteenth century play by Lewis Theobald is believed to be a re-writing of which lost play by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher? | show 🗑
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| The 1920 Treaty of Trianon formally ended WW1. It was signed by the Allied powers on the one hand and representatives of which (now EU member) country on the other'? | show 🗑
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| show | Tehran
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| show | Luke Cage
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| This theoretical contract grants special residence status to non-Muslim subjects in return for taxes. Derived from the Arabic for "people of the contract", which Islamic term describes non-Muslim subjects in states governed under Sharia law? | show 🗑
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| show | Argentina
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| In the troubled times of the 15th century, Yolande D'Aragon used her position to secure the French monarchy by marriage, diplomacy and force. She was the mother-in-law of which French king? | show 🗑
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| show | Paradise
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| show | Doula
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| show | Albania and Croatia
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| What is the name of the high school choir that is central to the US TV show 'Glee’? | show 🗑
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| Similar in origin and meaning to 'Baksheesh', which term derives from a word once uttered by beggars in the dialect of Xiamen (a port in South East China) and now also refers to something obtained unofficially, whether deviously or by ingenuity? | show 🗑
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| Which German footballer's last gasp equaliser took the 1966 World Cup Final into extra time? | show 🗑
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| show | Ebonics
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| show | Girton
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| In which English county is Naseby? | show 🗑
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| In which US national park is the 'General Sherman' tree? | show 🗑
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| show | Kent
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| show | Mountains
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| show | Gladstone
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| In which English county is Wycombe Abbey? | show 🗑
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| show | Vancouver, Toronto
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| show | Belgium
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| Which minor planet, or asteroid, is the second-most-massive and second-largest body in the asteroid belt? | show 🗑
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| What is the largest object in the asteroid belt that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter? | show 🗑
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| Discovered in 2005, what is the name of the dwarf planet that is perhaps the largest Kuiper belt object (KBO) in the classical population, with a diameter approximately two thirds that of Pluto? | show 🗑
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| show | Centuars
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| show | Channel Islands
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| show | Ebbsfleet
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| show | Greece
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| What type of number is the sum of all its factors? | show 🗑
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| show | Imaginary
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| What is an aoudad? | show 🗑
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| What gift is given on the ninth wedding anniversary? | show 🗑
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| In Genesis, who was Isaac's wife? | show 🗑
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| According to the Bible, in which cave were both Abraham and Sarah buried? | show 🗑
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| show | Jacob and Esau
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| In Genesis, who was the father of Abraham? | show 🗑
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| Who named both dishes Peach Melba and Tournedos Rossini? | show 🗑
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| Which Italian dessert dish consists of egg yolks with marsala wine? | show 🗑
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| Which fruit is used to make tzatziki? | show 🗑
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| What name is given to eggs that are, in fact, buried for just a few months? | show 🗑
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| What name is given to French pancakes with orange syrup and liqueur? | show 🗑
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| show | Woody Guthrie
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| He's backed every major 'funk' figure, from George Clinton to Prince. What is the surname of the saxophonist introduced by James Brown on the 1974 track 'Soul Of A Black Man' with the words: "Maceo! Come here quick, and bring that funky licking stick!"? | show 🗑
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| show | Togo
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| Which capital city, perhaps inhabited since 10000 BC but certainly in continuous habitation for 6,000 years, became an important settlement after the Aramaeans arrived and established a network of canals that still form the basis of its water networks? | show 🗑
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| show | Mantua
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||||
| FC Unirea Urziceni is a football team playing in which UEFA country, having won Liga 1 in season 2008/09? | show 🗑
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| He has two elder sisters whose ex-husbands were Ricky Nelson and John DeLorean. He has been married to Pam Dawber since 1987. Who is this former UCLA star quarterback (his father was also a Heisman Trophy winner) and leading star of US TV? | show 🗑
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| show | Gaziantep or Antep
🗑
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||||
| After declaring independence from Ottoman rule, Albania was recognised in 1913. Independence had been asserted by an assembly convened in the place which is now the country's second largest port, and which was Albania's capital until 1914. Which city? | show 🗑
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| Born Jozef De Veuster he is better known as Father Damian. In 2009 the Pope declared him a Saint for his charitable work with the lepers on which Hawaiian island, where he lived and eventually died himself of leprosy in 1889? | show 🗑
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| show | Simon Bolivar
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| Which country shares its name with the band of Savannah that stretches across Africa from Mali in the west to the Ethiopian Highlands in the East? | show 🗑
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| show | Saint-Georges
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| show | Gwendolyn Brooks
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| hich two-word term that first gained currency in the 1950s commonly refers to a person with a non-speaking or supernumerary role in an opera or stage play? | show 🗑
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| show | Bulgaria
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| show | Peru
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||||
| Almost 300 years after their foundation, who or what did Constantine the Great replace in 310AD with the Scholae? | show 🗑
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| show | Walter
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| show | It was an all-black/African-American regiment
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| A Swedish soprano, with perfect singing and vivid acting, she made her debut in 1947, aged just 20, and was still performing in the 1990s. In 1997 a Eurostar train was named in her honour. Which much loved singer died aged 82 in November 2009? | show 🗑
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| show | Colonel Mike Hoare
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| show | Michaela Tabb
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| show | Poutine
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| Similar to the use of thread count for cotton fabrics, what unit of weight is traditionally used to measure the density of fabric made of silk? | show 🗑
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||||
| Who was the jockey who won the Grand National in 1967 on Foinavon? | show 🗑
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||||
| He won the English singles bowls title in 1960 and won every Commonwealth Games singles bowls gold medal from 1962 to 1978, and was three times world singles champion. Who is this pipe smoking bowler who was still winning world championships in 1992? | show 🗑
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||||
| The Marathon de Sables is a 6 day / 151 mile endurance race across the Sahara Desert normally taking place at the end of March / beginning of April. In which country does it take place? | show 🗑
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| show | Moffitt
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| show | Chris Evert
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| This lady was born in Liege in 1982. She has won 7 Grand Slam singles titles, being 4 French Open titles (3 in a row), 1 Australian Open title, 2 US Open titles & 2004 Olympic Gold. In 2008 she announced her retirement only to return in 2010. Who is she? | show 🗑
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| show | Perth, WA
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||||
| Tennis player Jelena Dokic played for Serbia and which other, adopted country? | show 🗑
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| show | Mark Williams
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|
||||
| ho is this former Finnish rally driver. Driving for Peugeot, he won the World Rally Championship in 2000 and 2002. After leaving Peugeot in 2005 he drove for Ford in 2006 and 2007 before retiring. Who is he? | show 🗑
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||||
| Born in 1979 and with a Spanish grandfather, who is the England rugby union player and Sale Wing/Full back who is best remembered for his disallowed try in the 2007 World Cup final against South Africa? | show 🗑
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| show | Rodney Marsh
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| show | Four
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||||
| show | They accidentally ran one lap too many
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||||
| Which unit of measure for the linear mass density of fibers, yarns and thread and is defined as the mass in grams per 1000 meters? | show 🗑
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| show | Northern Ireland
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|
||||
| In Gustav Holst's work "The Planets Suite" which planet is termed "The Mystic"? | show 🗑
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| show | Rhone Valley
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| show | Asquith
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| Which Dutch Renaissance artist painted "The Hunters in the Snow", in 1565? | show 🗑
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| show | 22
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|
||||
| Named after a capital city, which interpretration of the meaning of quantum mechanics was largely devised in the years 1925 to 1927 by Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg? | show 🗑
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||||
| As of 2001 onwards, car registrations beginning with the letter H, come from which area of the UK? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Compiègne
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||||
| The Danakil Desert is in part in three African countries - name any two. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Edouard Daladier
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| show | Richard Feynman
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| show | Imperial College
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|
||||
| Colonel Nicholson, played by Alec Guinness, is one of the main characters in which famous 1957 war film? | show 🗑
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||||
| What was the middle name of Senator Edward M Kennedy, who died in August 2009? | show 🗑
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| show | Hector Berlioz
🗑
|
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| In which month of the year is Walpurgis Night celebrated in Europe and Scandinavia? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which well known 1987 film, featured a character named Private Pyle, played by Vincent D'Onofrio? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Buxton
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||||
| show | Mr Gruber
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| show | Bantam
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|
||||
| Who was Romania's Deputy PM from March 1980 – 22 December 1989? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Eisenhower
🗑
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||||
| The Vietnam war really started in 1964, when the US claimed that its destroyers anchored in which body of water off North Vietnam had been fired upon? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which US President opted to have dangerous surgery for cancer of the jaw performed on board his yacht at sea because he wanted to cover up how ill he was? | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Marshall
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| show | Charles Dawson
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||||
| show | Protocol of the Elders of Zion
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|
||||
| What was the name of the 'lost' Shakespeare play that William Ireland claimed to have found in the c18- in fact he had written it and it was rubbish? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which forged document, which was used by the Popes in the Dark Ages to buttress and justify their authority, was proven as a fake by Lorenzo Valla in 1440? | show 🗑
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||||
| Who plays Dexter in TV series 'Dexter'? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Siegfried Line
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||||
| show | Daniel Defoe
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||||
| show | Henry James
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| show | Gregory VII
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||||
| Torre del Lago on the Tuscan Riviera is the home of an annual festival devoted to which composer's music? | show 🗑
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||||
| During the Albigensian Crusades, Papal commander Arnaud Amalric uttered the famous words 'Kill them all- God will recognise his own' during an attack on Cathars in which French city? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Gregory IX
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||||
| show | Gott Mit Uns
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| The notorious verse Leviticus 20:13 is taken as justification for an anti-homosexual stance by some Christians. In that case, if they also follow Leviticus 11:12, they should not do what? | show 🗑
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||||
| The Prussian Karl Wilhelm Naundorff was the most successful and tenacious of the men claiming to be who? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Esther
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||||
| The Story of My Life, a UK number one hit for Michael Holliday, was penned by which American songwriting team? | show 🗑
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||||
| From which London terminus did Phileas Fogg depart at the beginning of his journey Around the World in 80 Days? | show 🗑
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||||
| Events made famous by James Fenimore Cooper in his novel The Last of the Mohicans, who was the British commander who surrendered Fort William Henry to the Marquis de Montcalm in 1757? | show 🗑
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| show | Antimony (SB - Stibium)
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|
||||
| In which film did Arnold Schwarzenegger play the character Julius Benedict? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Mr Enderby
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|
||||
| show | Sri Lanka
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|
||||
| In which constituency did Shirley Williams win a parliamentary by-election for the Liberal-SDP Alliance in November 1981? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Claret
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|
||||
| Early models of the Vauxhall Vectra (manufactured by Opel) were known by what name in the UK until 1995? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which opera contains the aria Casta Diva, made famous by Maria Callas? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Indiana
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|
||||
| I’m Into Something Good, a UK number one hit for Herman’s Hermits, was penned by which American song-writing team? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Victoria
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|
||||
| As of 2016, four countries have reached the final of the FIFA World Cup but have never won the trophy – Czechoslovakia, Holland, Hungary and which other? | show 🗑
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| show | Long words
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| With what digit do the numbers of all Mastercard credit cards begin? | show 🗑
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||||
| The Puy de Sancy is the highest point of which mountain range? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which 2009 book by David Benedictus is a sequel to AA Milne's Winnie the Pooh stories? | show 🗑
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||||
| Complete this saying by American sociologist Daniel Bell- 'Capitalism is a system where man exploits man- and communism is.....'? | show 🗑
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||||
| What surname links Count Helmuth, Prussian Army Chief of Staff in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 and his nephew, German Chief of Staff at the outbreak of WW1? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which farce by Foot and Marriott about a newly married bank manager inadvertantly flooded by pornography ran for nearly 7000 performances in the West End? | show 🗑
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| show | Poison Pill
🗑
|
||||
| Which Greek author of the 1st and 2nd centuries AD (46-120)wrote paired biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, the source of much material for Shakespeare? | show 🗑
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||||
| What is the name of the lower house of the French parliament, the equivalent of the House of Commons? | show 🗑
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||||
| Boccherini's Quintet in E Major, Opus 11, Number 5 is played repeatedly in which film, though becoming a quartet, then a trio? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which British runner's 1937 world record for the mile stood for five years? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Vinson Massif/Mount Vinson
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|
||||
| The black-cap titmouse, an American bird, has what more common alternative name? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Rome
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|
||||
| The 1715 Riot Act, from which the phrase 'reading the Riot Act', specified how many people as the minimum for a riot? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Shandy Hall
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|
||||
| show | Parallax
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|
||||
| show | Tetronimo
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|
||||
| In which 1998 film does Ewan McGregor co-star as the fictional rock star Curt Wild? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | 1980 Moscow
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| show | 1879
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|
||||
| Which rock band's debut album was entitled The Aerosol Grey Machine? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which actor played the male lead in the Alfred Hitchcock film Marnie? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which novel's last line is "unquiet slumbers for those sleepers in that quiet earth"? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Pat Phoenix
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|
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| show | Ed Koch
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|
||||
| show | David Steel
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|
||||
| show | Canaan Banana
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||||
| show | John Mayhew
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|
||||
| show | Elisabeth Beresford
🗑
|
||||
| With high mountains, green meadows, and clear lakes, which valley and administrative district, with a capital at Saidu Sharif, used to be known as "the Switzerland of Pakistan"? | show 🗑
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| Jimmy Boyd had a UK number 3 hit single in 1953 with what Christmas song? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which Spanish artist painted Massacre in Korea in 1951 as a protest against United States intervention in Korea? | show 🗑
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||||
| A three-time Champion Jockey, he rode 1699 UK winners in his career. In 2008 it was reported that he had reached the South Pole following a 48 day charity trek. His won the King George VI Chase on the legendary grey Desert Orchid 1989 and 1990? Who? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Joe Calzaghe
🗑
|
||||
| show | Phil Tufnell
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|
||||
| show | Austin Healey
🗑
|
||||
| Which French Rugby Union club did Jonny Wilkinson sign for in May 2009, and who he played for until he retired in 2014? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Who, in 1913, became the first man to fly across the Mediterranean sea? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Michel Platini
🗑
|
||||
| Which football club did George Graham leave to manage Arsenal in 1986? | show 🗑
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||||
| A top woman skier she was 7th in the 1972 Olympic Giant Slalom. This Briton also tried to race in F1 but failed to qualify in her three attempts - who? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Gary Cooper
🗑
|
||||
| Which two national teams contest Rugby Union's Giuseppe Garibaldi Trophy? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Charles Hamilton
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|
||||
| show | Darfur
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|
||||
| show | z
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|
||||
| Which U.S. state has nicknames including The Blue Hen State, The Diamond State and The First State? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Unravelling of yarn
🗑
|
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| show | Casting On
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|
||||
| show | Kidney
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||||
| Which author published "A Grief Observed" as N.W. Clerk and "Spirits in Bondage" as Clive Hamilton? | show 🗑
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||||
| In 1960, Michael Woodruff performed the first successful kidney transplant operation in the United Kingdom. In what Scottish city? | show 🗑
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| show | Gustave Doré
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| Originally marketed as a way to remove cold cream or makeup , which genericised trademark has been owned and used by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation since June 12, 1924? | show 🗑
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| What Iberian city was the Cutty Sark's home port from 1895 to 1923? | show 🗑
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| Who was Richard III of England's wife? | show 🗑
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| Which current English Premier League football team first won the Division 1 title in 1900-01? | show 🗑
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| show | O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
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| show | Ingram Frizer
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| show | Ben Jonson
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| show | Jean-Paul Sartre
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| What is the subtitle of Aphra Behn's "Oroonoko"? | show 🗑
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| Born in Sydney in 1956 on the first day of the Melbourne games, she created Olympic history by being the first woman to win three individual gold swimming medals in world record times. In 1972 she held every swimming record from 100m to 1500m.- who? | show 🗑
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| Which is the 6th book of the New Testament? | show 🗑
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| show | Tottenham Hotspur
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| What letter or letters are above F on the Plimsoll line? | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Towton
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| show | John Tyler
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| Whom did Idi Amin overthrow in the Ugandan coup of 1971? | show 🗑
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| In meteorology an isocheim is a line joining places of equal what? | show 🗑
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| Which American President fought in the War of Independence, and served an 8-year term during which the USA acquired Florida? | show 🗑
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| Which British novelist wrote: "Lords of the North", "Vagabond", and the "Winter King"? | show 🗑
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| show | Cast
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| show | James Ross
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| Which horse won the Derby, the Eclipse Stakes, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Prix De L'Arc De Triomphe in 1971? | show 🗑
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| What is the second highest possible check out in darts? | show 🗑
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| show | All forlorn
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| Which famous novelist, when returning from France in 1865, was involved in the Staplehurst rail crash? | show 🗑
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| show | The Stone of Scone
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| show | Bangladesh
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| show | Sustainable Development
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| show | 11m
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| show | Depth (of field)
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| show | Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia
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| What two words complete the Ronald Reagan quote: “If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, …”? | show 🗑
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| show | Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom
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| show | FIFA
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| Sam Raimi directed some of which superhero film trilogy in the 2000s? | show 🗑
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| show | The Ten Tors Challenge
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| A person’s last name, what does the T stand for in the name of the television channel TCM? | show 🗑
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| show | Robert Patrick
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| show | Three
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| Airing from 1978 to 1982, what series starred Judd Hirsch, Danny DeVito, Marilu Henner and Tony Danza? | show 🗑
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| Which tennis player won the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open in 2002, followed by the Australian Open in 2003 to complete her own special slam? | show 🗑
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| show | Karlsruhe or Leipzig
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| show | The Gunfighter
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| show | Tyrone Power
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| Which style of painting, characterised by distortions and elongations of the human figure, succeeded High Renaissance and was practiced by Giorgio Vasari, Tintoretto and El Greco? | show 🗑
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| In navigation, what name is given to a line crossing all meridians of longitude at the same angle and that appears as a straight line on a Mercator map? | show 🗑
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| show | Aegisthus
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| show | Armenian
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| So named as it is a cross between Pinot and Hermitage, Pinotage is a grape from which country? | show 🗑
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| In what city would you find the tourist attraction, the Catacomb of Priscilla? | show 🗑
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| Which beautiful Italian actress was married to Dino de Laurentiis and had a mother called Ivy Webb from Croydon? | show 🗑
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| show | MacMillan's "Winds of Change"
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| Which Russian arts movement was founded by Vladimir Tatlin in the early years of the Bolshevik Revolution and included Joaquín Torres García, Manuel Rendón, Antoine Pevsner and Naum Gabo? | show 🗑
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| Several people are EGOTS, including Richard Rodgers, Whoopi Goldberg, Mel Brooks and Audrey Hepburn. Robert Lopez became the twelfth in 2014. What is an EGOT? | show 🗑
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| show | Buckwheat
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| An alternative to a rhumb line, which name is given to a line in navigation that can save aviation fuel and flying time at high latitudes? | show 🗑
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| Which Midwestern US city is nicknamed the City of Fountains? | show 🗑
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| Played at the World Games, and with the 2015 World Championships in Cordoba, Argentina won by Germany, which sport is of European origin and is similar to volleyball in that player tries to hit a ball over a net? | show 🗑
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| Competed for at the World Games, what kid of swimming uses 'monofins'? | show 🗑
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| Where will the 2017 World Games be held? | show 🗑
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| Where were the 2013 World Games held? | show 🗑
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| show | Duisburg
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| show | Boule Lyonnaise
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| show | Canoe Polo
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| Which strength sport resembles the sport of Olympic weightlifting, as both disciplines involve lifting weights in three attempts? | show 🗑
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| In Family Guy, what is Quagmire's forename? | show 🗑
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| Which of the Queen's sons will inherit the title Duke of Edinburgh? | show 🗑
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| An Evening Standard headline in 1982 claimed that who was the 'first man into Stanley' at the end of the Falklands War? | show 🗑
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| show | The side
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| show | Shanghai
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| What sports ceremony takes place in Butler Cabin? | show 🗑
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| Who won the US Masters golf tournament in 1958, 1960, 1962 and 1964? | show 🗑
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| Which golfer was deprived of a Masters playoff in 1967 due to a wrongly marked scorecard? | show 🗑
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| show | An eagle
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| show | Tom Wieskopf
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| In myth, Odysseus and Diomedes entered Troy to steal what statue, known as 'The luck of Troy', on which the safety of the city depended? | show 🗑
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| What centaur tutored Achilles, in myth? | show 🗑
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| According to Ovid, who did Perseus change into a mountain by showing him Medusa's head? | show 🗑
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| show | Hephaestus
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| In Greek myth, which king sent Jason to get the Golden Fleece? | show 🗑
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| show | Tartarus
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| What were the Roman equivalent of the Moirae, the Greek personifications of destiny, also known as the Fates? | show 🗑
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| In myth, The Scylla had six heads but how many legs? | show 🗑
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| In Greek myth, it was predicted that Perseus would kill who, his own grandfather (i.e the father of Danae)? | show 🗑
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| show | Macaroon
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| Irving Kristol and Norman Poderetz were early proponents of what economic doctrine? | show 🗑
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| The Golden Rose Award for film is now awarded where (not Montreux)? | show 🗑
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| Who was the last British jersey winner in the Tour de France before Mark Cavendish, in 1984? | show 🗑
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| George D Watt was baptised in the River Ribble by missionaries in 1837- he was the first British convert to what sect? | show 🗑
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| Which anti-crime scheme was founded in Britain after a group of police officers visited Chicago in 1982? | show 🗑
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| Who collaborated on his plays with John Fletcher but was the sole author of the "Knight of the Burning Pestle"? | show 🗑
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| Which British film-maker made "Senna"? | show 🗑
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| show | 42nd Street
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| In August 1914, at the start of the First World War, Admiral Charles Fitzgerald founded an order, with support from the author Mrs Humphrey Ward, that aimed to shame men into enlisting in the British Army by persuading women to do what? | show 🗑
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| What does Mortgage literally mean? | show 🗑
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| What acronym describes a high-mobility multi-purpose vehicle developed for the US army in 1981? | show 🗑
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| show | Pashka
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| What is the first in the Sean O'Casey trilogy of plays about Irish independence, often called the "Dublin trilogy"? | show 🗑
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| show | Syncromesh
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| show | Dijon
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| Whose first wife was Vivienne Haigh-Wood? | show 🗑
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| Which country is divided into the Oberland and the Unterland? | show 🗑
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| What word for an apparent contradiction comes from the Greek for 'sharp' and 'foolish'? | show 🗑
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| show | Sunrise
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| African, Signet and French are popular varieties of what bedding plant? | show 🗑
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| What name is given to the Wedgewood design of pale blue stoneware with applied white relief decoration that was first produced in about 1774? | show 🗑
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| show | Lord Mayor of Birmingham
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| What name is given to a hypothetical gas that obeys Boyle's Law and Charles's law at all pressures and temperatures? | show 🗑
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| show | Hayley Turner
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| show | Jean Batten
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| The Jonglei canal is a giant unfinished irrigation project, complete with rusting excavator abandoned in the desert in 1983. In what country? | show 🗑
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| The hymn Te Deum is the theme song of Eurovision. Which Frenchman wrote it in 1690? | show 🗑
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| What science fiction TV series starred Edward Olmos in the role of Captain Adama? | show 🗑
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| show | Ritz brothers
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| show | Berliner
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| Which orchestra was especially created for Arturo Toscanini, who conducted it from 1937 to 1954? | show 🗑
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| show | Giselle (music by Adolphe Adam)
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| What does an ebéniste make? | show 🗑
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| Prime Minister Harold Wilson famously supported which football team? | show 🗑
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| What colour is the Whitechapel square in Monopoly? | show 🗑
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| show | Joseph
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| Party Politics won the Grand National in which year, that of a General Election? | show 🗑
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| show | Eight
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| show | Five
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| What are the seven judo belts in order, from lowest to highest? | show 🗑
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| show | Polo
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| Which country hosted the 1998 Commonwealth Games? | show 🗑
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| show | Glasgow
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| show | Gold Coast, Australia
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| show | A bullfighting sword
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| Karen Smithies played for England at which sport? | show 🗑
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| In which city was the FA Cup stolen in 1895? | show 🗑
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| show | 4 metres or 13 feet
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| show | Charlotte Edwards
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| In 2009, who was the first woman to be named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year? | show 🗑
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| show | Two
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| show | Harness Racing
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| show | Accrington Stanley
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| What is the name of the ground where Aldershot Town play - they started there in 1927, and again in 1992 when the club was refounded? | show 🗑
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| In a famous advert, Brooke Bond Red Mountain took "...." what out of ground coffee? | show 🗑
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| show | Kevin Kline
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| Who played the female lead in the film version of "Captain Corelli's Mandolin"? | show 🗑
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| show | Joke shop
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| Who is best known for hosting the River Cottage series on the UK television channel Channel 4, in which audiences observe his efforts to become a self-reliant, downshifted farmer in rural England? | show 🗑
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| show | Silverado
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| show | Harry Brown
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| show | Barbara Knox
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| show | John McClane
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||||
| What is the subtitle of Star Wars: Episode III? | show 🗑
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| show | 969
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| show | Grandfather
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| show | Cats
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| show | Ham, Shem, Japheth
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| Where was Cain banished to, in the Bible, for murdering Abel? | show 🗑
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| 'Ladies Who Lunch' is a song from which Sondheim musical? | show 🗑
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| show | R Kelly
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| How many pairs of birds of each species were taken onto Noah's Ark, according to the Bible? | show 🗑
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| What musical instrument is also called a "German Faggott"? | show 🗑
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| show | 1978
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| show | Three
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| In the Bible, what symbolised God's promise not to cause another flood? | show 🗑
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| show | God
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| Who said "music can only be commented on when bad, when good one should listen - and be grateful", and wrote librettos for several operas? | show 🗑
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| show | Muscat
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| show | 600
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| Who co-wrote the musical "My Fair Lady"? | show 🗑
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| show | Kasabian
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| show | A Rake's Progress
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| show | Lanech
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| Linseed oil comes from the seed of which plant? | show 🗑
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| show | Ties
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| Where on a ship would you find 'flukes'? | show 🗑
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| What is a 'wandering sailor'? | show 🗑
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| show | Parachute
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| What is the ribbon on a Knights of the Garter decoration? | show 🗑
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| What does 'krypton' mean in Greek? | show 🗑
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| The first passenger jetliner flew from London to where? | show 🗑
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| In medieval bestiaries, what were believed born from dead oxen? | show 🗑
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| What nationality was naturalist Henry Beston? | show 🗑
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